Truong co-edited the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, and her essay Welcome to America was featured on National Public Radio.  Granting her an award of excellence, the Vietnamese American Studies Center at San Francisco State University called her, “a pioneer in the field, as an academic, an advocate, and an artist.”  She was awarded a Lannan Foundation writing residency in 2001.  Her novel The Book of Salt weaves historical figures such as Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Ho Chi Minh.

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